Hi!

I'm pretty sure that it's not Tiny MCE doing this but rather the permenent link functionality in EPiServer CMS. Links are converted to an internal format regardless if they are absolute and relative and when they are recreated to the site they get the relative path format. I'm not sure if and how this can be changed but I would dig into url rewrite providers.

Ok, I'll look into that then. Thanks!

Hi David,

Did you manager to resolve this issue?  We are experiencing the same problem.

We are using the TinyMCE editor to build email templates.   When we insert an absolute URL (event directly into the HTML) it converts it to a relative path as soon as you update the editor.

Many thanks

Carl

Hi,

If you want to rewrite all links in a string to it's external representation you could use the RewriteString() function;

public static string RewriteUrlsToFriendly(this string input, bool absoluteUrls)
{
    if (absoluteUrls)
    {
        // Make url's absolute
        input = Regex.Replace(input, "<img(.*?)src=\"/", "<img$1src=\"" + EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance.SiteUrl.ToString(), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
        input = Regex.Replace(input, "<a(.*?)href=\"/", "<a$1href=\"" + EPiServer.Configuration.Settings.Instance.SiteUrl.ToString(), RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);
    }

    var toExternal = new FriendlyHtmlRewriteToExternal(UrlBuilder.RebaseKind.ToRootRelative);

    return toExternal.RewriteString(
        new UrlBuilder(HttpContext.Current.Request.Path),
        new UrlBuilder(HttpContext.Current.Request.RawUrl),
        HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding,
        input);
}

If you don't have a HttpContext I guess you can instantiate empty UrlBuilders and also set the econding to UTF-8.   

Thanks Johan.  Your solution works like a charm.

If this doesn't work you may find that TinyMCE is using Relative URLs (default option).  To fix this you can add the following configuration option to your TinyMCE editor:

tinyMCE.init({
        ...
        relative_urls :false
});


as described here: http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/Configuration:relative_urls


Oh and Happy New Year!